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	GPS May Untangle Timor Border Disputes
		Interfet spokesman Colonel Mark Kelly said the Indonesian armed forces had also asked Interfet to join a joint investigation into an incident on Sunday near the town of Motaain in which Interfet says Australian troops were fired on while still inside East Timor.
		Kelly said Australian forces in Interfet were operating with maps dating from 1992 which used Indonesian data, and added he did not know why an Indonesian armed forces patrol which met with Australian officers after the incident on Sunday was using a Dutch map dating from the 1930s.
		Interfet commander Major General Peter Cosgrove would look favorably on the request for a joint investigation, which would include a visit to the site of the clash, he added.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/indonesia-99e.html (476 words)

	INTERFET - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		INTERFET (standing for INTERnational Force East Timor) was a multinational peacekeeping taskforce, mandated by the United Nations to address the humanitarian and security crisis which took place in East Timor from 1999-2000 until the arrival of United Nations peacekeepers.
		INTERFET was commanded by Major-General Peter Cosgrove of the Australian Army.
		Sporadic cross-border raids by the militia against INTERFET forces, particularly in the southern border held by the New Zealand Army, lead to suspicion that the milita had the tacit support of the Indonesian military.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/INTERFET (332 words)

	Dáil Debates Official Report -12-10-99
		INTERFET operates under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, that is, it is entitled to use force to implement its mandate and to protect itself and the international civil presence, established in accordance with Resolution 1264.
		INTERFET is an important expression, not just of the international community's commitment to peace in East Timor but also of its will to have the democratically expressed wish of the East Timorese people of 30 August upheld and implemented.
		INTERFET is an expression of the international community's commitment to peace in East Timor and for us in Ireland it is a demonstration of a co-operative approach to ensuring international peace and security.
	www.irlgov.ie /debates-99/12oct99/sect4.htm (17265 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| Turning over a blood-drenched leaf
		Prior to the arrival of the multinational InterFET forces on 20 September, East Timor thus rapidly descended into state-organised anarchy as Indonesia's security forces openly colluded with the militias in the slaughter of the population throughout the territory.
		This force, called InterFET, was largely put together by the Australian government at the APEC heads of government summit in Auckland, with support from New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom and a number of ASEAN countries including the Philippines and Thailand.
		At the time of writing, InterFET had secured almost all the major and provincial towns in the territory, removing the threat of the militias who have fled to West Timor (Indonesia), while securing the departure of most TNI troops, reducing their numbers from over 20,000 to 1500.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1999/454/in2.htm (1347 words)

	East Timor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Militias fled across the border into Indonesia, from which they attempted sporadic armed raids, particularly along the New Zealand Army-held southern half of the main border.
		As these raids were repelled and international moral opinion forced Indonesia to withdraw tacit support, the militias dispersed.
		INTERFET was replaced by a UN force of International Police, and the mission became known as UNTAET.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_Timor (3673 words)

	Guardian \| Army's hand seen in East Timor border ambush
		The body was later taken away by Interfet, which said publicly that the man's khaki clothing was the sort of uniform worn by militias in the area.
		Privately, however, Interfet officers expressed the fear that the professional nature of the attack indicated Indonesian military involvement and that the Indonesian army, not militia groups, could be behind the spate of ambushes of Interfet forces in the border area in recent days.
		Interfet said Col Sigit Yuwyno admitted later that the Australians were on the East Timorese side and had not fired the first shots.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3910808-103547,00.html (469 words)

	UNTAC and INTERFET - A Comparative Analysis
		The extent of participation in both UNTAC and INTERFET by regional countries highlights their preference to act with the authority of the UN through the means of a UN Security Council Resolution.
		INTERFET did not have a civilian police component, and had to undertake responsibilities to sustain law and order after the threat from the militia had been contained.
		During INTERFET this was managed under Australian arrangements in Australia, while in UNTAC it was left to the individual nations to consider the extent that it was required.
	www.ndu.edu /inss/symposia/pacific2001/aylingpaper.htm (5043 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		It was the fourth significant clash between Interfet and anti-independence gunmen since the Australian-led force arrived on Sept. 20 with a United Nations mandate to quell militia violence that followed East Timor's overwhelming vote for independence from Indonesia.
		Interfet denies that it trespassed, and Kelly said yesterday that the Indonesian armed forces agreed that it had not.
		On Friday Interfet commander Major General Peter Cosgrove estimated that several hundred anti-independence militias were still active in East Timor, but dismissed reports that they numbered in their thousands.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/front/archives/1999/10/17/6773/print (606 words)

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		INTERFET inevitably had to fill the latter, while UNTAET, with minimal staff and functioning in appalling conditions, was not yet able to assume the former effectively.
		In October, according to INTERFET reports, five incidents occurred in the border region (in the vicinity of Suai, Alto Lebos, Bobonaro and Motaain) in which INTERFET forces exchanged fire with armed militia groups, resulting in the confirmed deaths of four militiamen, and the wounding of two INTERFET soldiers and 11 militiamen.
		INTERFET returned fire and the militiamen withdrew towards the West Timor border, firing as they went; one of them was wounded.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord2000/documentation/security/s-2000-53.htm (7405 words)

	East Timor - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about East Timor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The first troops of an Australian-led UN force, the International Force in East Timor (INTERFET), landed in East Timor on 20 September, but anti-independence militias stepped up their opposition.
		In late September, INTERFET troops took the centre of Dili, and by the end of the month an estimated 20,000 displaced East Timorese had returned to the city.
		INTERFET was replaced by the UN Transitional Administration for East Timor (UNTAET), and Wahid signed a memorandum of understanding with UNTAET, providing for the resumption of cross-border trade and transport links between East Timor and Indonesia.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /East+Timor (1230 words)

	Gender-Selective Atrocities in East Timor 11/99
		INTERFET and aid groups are largely relying on anecdotal evidence, but with no reliable figures for the population before the poll making an accurate assessment of the death toll in the recent violence is proving difficult.
		Interfet has now produced the first official population figures for the newly independent territory and the fate of more than 80,000 people is unknown.
		Interfet's chief of staff, Colonel Mark Kelly, yesterday conceded that anti-independence militia might still be operating in the hills of East Timor.
	adamjones.freeservers.com /timor3.htm (19489 words)

	(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		I am pleased to report that, in the intervening two months, INTERFET has largely achieved the tasks the United Nations set it: to restore peace and security to East Timor, protect the United Nations mission in East Timor and facilitate humanitarian relief.
		INTERFET’s success in providing security has provided the basis for achieving its second and third goals, protecting the UN mission and facilitating the provision of humanitarian assistance.
		INTERFET has created the conditions for hundreds of thousands of East Timorese to return home and start to rebuild their lives.
	www.pm.gov.au /news/speeches/1999/easttimor2311.htm (3156 words)

	INTERFET (East Timor, 1999-2001)
		INTERFET (International Force for East Timor) is merely a military mission and its successor (known here as the phase III of the agreement between Portugal and Indonesia) will have also administrative powers, which INTERFET does not have.
		In February this year INTERFET has gradually handed over military responsibilities to UNTAET, the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor, a process marked by a series of ceremonies which involved lowering of the INTERFET flag, raising of the UN flag and “re-hatting” of military personnel (they changed head gear to UN blue berets).
		INTERFET did in fact occupy it and control has been handed over to the new United Nations civilian and military administration which will prepare the whole of East Timor, including the exclave, for the future.
	www.fotw.net /flags/tl_ifet.html (360 words)

	Legal aspects of Australia's involvement in the International Force for East Timor
		INTERFET was replaced on 23 February 2000 with a peacekeeping force under UN command forming part of the UN Transitional Authority in East Timor (UNTAET).
		The INTERFET concept of operations was for a four-phase operation with a preliminary phase involving preparation in Australia prior to deployment to East Timor.
		INTERFET’s incarceration of detainees was not the first occasion a multinational peace force had found it necessary to hold individuals in detention either in the absence of a workable local criminal justice system or on the basis of agreement by host nation authorities.
	www.icrc.org /Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList367/FEC1B40BA2DF7C5FC1256B66005F9DDF (12081 words)

	BBC News \| Monitoring \| Indonesian media targets Interfet
		Press reports have criticised Interfet's actions against anti-independence militias in the territory, accusing the force of using "mistaken tactics".
		"Interfet apparently considers the pro-integration group as an enemy against which violence must be employed", said the Suara Merdeka newspaper.
		For its part, Indonesian television said Interfet had a "biased attitude", and accused it of making life difficult for Indonesian journalists operating in the territory.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/monitoring/460990.stm (539 words)

	PM - Jakarta-Interfet war of words intensifies
		Interfet, of course, denies that and a senior Interfet source now claims that Indonesian soldiers did in fact fire at Australian troops.
		A senior Interfet source says within 10 or 20 seconds, uniformed Indonesian soldiers and militiamen opened fire on Australian troops, firing off sustained blasts of automatic weapons fire at troops strung out several hundred metres along the road.
		Still, even today, Interfet's official line is that only militia fired at that but the source maintains further Indonesian troops moved from the military camp in front of the column coming round to the flank to help attack the Australians.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s59193.htm (625 words)

	The Militant - Vol.63/No.36 - October 18, 1999 -- UN to establish E. Timor as a protectorate
		After securing their presence in the capital Dili, Interfet forces have begun to fan out to other parts of the country.
		Interfet forces fought a brief gun battle with militia in the northeast on September 29.
		An agreement between Interfet and Falintil leaders was reached October 5 that the guerrillas would not bear arms outside their own areas.
	www.themilitant.com /1999/6336/633660.html (697 words)

	Resources - The "Soldier's Soldier" - 10 May 2000
		Following the early morning lowering of the INTERFET flag in East Timor for the last time, an official signing ceremony dissolving the multinational force was held in the Governor's Palace some four hours later.
		INTERFET's historic mission to restore "peace and security" to the troubled province was voted an overwhelming success with General Cosgrove receiving numerous accolades from the UN chief administrator, Mr Sergio Viera de Mello and CNRT leaders, Mr Xanana Gusmao and Mr Jose Ramos Horta.
		INTERFET initially conducted airdrops, and then moved to actively assist the aid agencies with invaluable convoy escorts and the establishment of food distribution points.
	www.brisinst.org.au /resources/sanderson_wayne_soldier.html (1696 words)

	UNTAET
		The Security Council then authorized the multinational force (INTERFET) under a unified command structure headed by a Member State (Australia) to restore peace and security in East Timor, to protect and support UNAMET in carrying out its tasks and, within force capabilities, to facilitate humanitarian assistance operations.
		Shortly thereafter, on 25 October, the United Nations Security Council, by resolution 1272 (1999), established the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) as an integrated, multidimentional peacekeeping operation fully responsible for the administration of East Timor during its transition to independence.
		In February 2000, marking the complete deployment of UNTAET, command of military operations was transferred from INTERFET to the United Nations Peacekeeping Force.
	www.un.org /peace/etimor/UntaetB.htm (1825 words)

	Monthly Summaries
		Interfet was up to full strength at the start of the month and by the end of the month, had entered all part of East Timor, including the enclave of Oecussi where there were reports of a mass murder of nearly 70 people.
		As Interfet sought to control East Timor, there were some incidents, particularly along the border, Two militia were killed and two Australian soldiers injured in an attack near the border town of Cassa.
		Interfet is trying to restore some semblance of civil society and the market in Dili was reopened and they had plans to set up a court.
	www.gla.ac.uk /student/clubs/easttimor/monthly.html (2448 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| In pictures: Interfet leaves East Timor
		Australian General Peter Cosgrove (right), who led Interfet, salutes the force flag as it is draped over the shoulder of a soldier.
		Interfet soldiers fold the flag for the last time in East Timor, observed by General Cosgrove.
		Philippines General Jaime De Los Santos (left), commander of the UN forces in East Timor, Sergio Vieira De Mello (centre), chief of the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor, and General Cosgrove signed the papers transferring the military command in the territory.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/asia-pacific/654097.stm (203 words)

	Keeping the peace -
		Interfet was highly successful in creating conditions in which the East Timorese people could begin to rebuild.
		The Australian commander of Interfet, Major General Peter Cosgrove, attained a public prominence never achieved by a military figure in Australia since the Second World War.
		The Timor crisis in 1999 found Cosgrove as Commander of the Deployable Joint Force Headquarters, whose task is to facilitate rapid deployment of forces in cases of emergency.
	www.awm.gov.au /peacekeeping/timor/australia.htm (298 words)

	Interfet and Operation Warden In East Timor
		Interfet commander Major-General Peter Cosgrove has paid tribute to Australian soldiers who secured the enclave in October last year.
		Asked if TNI could have been involved, he said: "I would not go into speculation, but we have no indications that they are." Colonel Nymo said the helicopter was not hit, and there was no return fire in any of the incidents.
		Before leaving East Timor last week, the Interfet commander, Major-General Peter Cosgrove, had expressed concern that pro-Jakarta militia would test the capacity and resolve of the UN force that took over from Interfet.
	www.angelfire.com /al2/diggers/Newsb.html (3361 words)

	Interfet strikes temporary deal with Falintil in East Timor
		Colonel Kelly, spokesman for the International Force for East Timor (Interfet) announced yesterday that Interfet had “accepted that they can retain their weapons in their cantonments at present.” He went on to stress that “ongoing discussions...
		He went on to announce that Interfet would press “in the strongest possible terms” for the pro-independence guerillas to disarm.
		He proposed to meet with Interfet, aboard a Portuguese frigate, the Vasco da Gama, to discuss the guerillas' future role.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/oct1999/tim-o06.shtml (920 words)

	MFO
		INTERFET was the Australian Howard Government initiative to re-install law and order to East Timor, after the failure of UNAMET.
		INTERFET handed over its operations to UNTAET in February 2000.
		INTERFET was the largest deployment of Australian Troops since the Second World War.
	www.peacekeepers.asn.au /missions/interfet.htm (185 words)

	eMJA: Kitchener et al, Malaria in the Australian Defence Force during and after participation in the International ...
		On 20 September, lead elements of INTERFET from the Australian Defence Force (ADF) landed in Dili and were soon followed by approximately 5500 ADF personnel assigned to serve in different parts of East Timor.
		INTERFET concluded on 23 February 2000, when most ADF personnel came under the command of the Peace Keeping Force of the United Nations Transition Administration for East Timor (UNTAET).
		Based on data from ADF units deployed to other areas of East Timor, other high risk areas were the mouth of the Komoro River in Dili (near the international airport) and the southern border regions near Suai.
	www.mja.com.au /public/issues/173_11_041200/kitchener/kitchener.html (1756 words)

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